Stratics VeteranStratics Legend

be cool if they created a sea-based dungeon - where you sail into a strange new area where you need nightsight to see and where new creatures try to attack your boat. maybe have a maze of creepy hanging vines to navigate through... or maybe i just need to play some more tomb raider on my ps2 this weekend. it's been awhile... heh

Actually, I see 3 answers, 1 "I can't answer you without releasing details about SA I'm not able to reveal yet" (the pets one), and 1 sorta-cop-out concerning an idea that many individual Devs have wanted to do for years, but have had technical issues (boats being tile-based is one of the big issues with a nautical expansion).

IF you actually get a chance to hear some of the discussions concerning that last question, from town halls, you'd understand WHY he didn't want to try an answer in a FoF - it would be long enough to be a discussion by itself (as long as one of those old FoFs with the pages of community events). He's really just saying (in an obtuse manner) "yeah, we want to do one, but getting to do it and making it work is another matter, so here's a fish story..."

Some long-requested teases, some lore, some urban legend squelching ... what more do you want to see?

(ie: what questions did you submit?)

Click to expand...

I kinda feel like the puppy who keeps coming up to his/her master and wagging it's tail and repeatedly getting kicked and NOT learning his/her lesson.

Although it's not really a FoF (although I have asked it) but stupid me I just keep thinking and hoping that maybe they would address the MUCH asked and NOT answered questions about the 11th Anniversary Items.

I have no idea how you meant this so will simply assume it was made in jest since you choose to take what I said out of context and only take part of what I said. I guess I did leave myself open for that didn't I?

IF you actually get a chance to hear some of the discussions concerning that last question, from town halls, you'd understand WHY he didn't want to try an answer in a FoF - it would be long enough to be a discussion by itself (as long as one of those old FoFs with the pages of community events).

Click to expand...

Ok then why choose it as one of the questions? All I am saying personally is that FoF is supposed to be answers to questions. If they don't get five good questions, let us know that. But a partial or "no" answer is silly.

Stratics Veteran

I'll answer the Doom question. Each kill you get, increases your chance of getting an arty.

The faster the bosses are killed, the faster you get another arty. If you solo, it will take a very long time on average to get an arty, compared to in a large group.

So dont waste time doing Doom unless there are lots of people there, ideally 10, as everyone involved will get looting rights. This is especially true, because of the cheap availability of faction versions of all the high end PvM items like faction Ornys.

1. Boats are tile-based, as is their movement, leading to such things as ghost images, people getting knocked off boats, surface features materializing in the middle of a deck when the boat resets around them, etc.

2. Z-axis issues. The seas are really just water tiles, with bare land beneath them. It the past, there were cases of people getting boats onto high-z water bodies (the justice shrine lake) and sailing them off, effectively turning them into airboats. On the other hand, some people found ways of getting their characters UNDER the waves, and using that wide-open normally-inaccessible area for unattended macro mining. These exploits were fixed prior to AoS, as far as I can tell, as you can't put boats on non-sea-level water bodies anymore, and I believe the servers were coded to bounce anyone under sea level with a water tile above them back to the surface.

3. One of the earlier expansions was supposed to have included ridable seahorses and other sea content, but that got sank by the above problems.

What color is the sky in Stygian Abyss?
You can't see it anyway, but we'll look it into it.

Really, what color is it?
The devs tried looking into it, but they can't get beyond the top-down view. They can't see it either. We'll ask our boss.

What did the boss say about the sky?
He misunderstood the question. He thought someone was tripping out asking about the color of 'desk high.' They were fired and no one else is brave enough to ask again.

Stratics Veteran

What color is the sky in Stygian Abyss?
You can't see it anyway, but we'll look it into it.

Really, what color is it?
The devs tried looking into it, but they can't get beyond the top-down view. They can't see it either. We'll ask our boss.

What did the boss say about the sky?
He misunderstood the question. He thought someone was tripping out asking about the color of 'desk high.' They were fired and no one else is brave enough to ask again.

Stratics Veteran

I'll answer the Doom question. Each kill you get, increases your chance of getting an arty.

The faster the bosses are killed, the faster you get another arty. If you solo, it will take a very long time on average to get an arty, compared to in a large group.

So dont waste time doing Doom unless there are lots of people there, ideally 10, as everyone involved will get looting rights. This is especially true, because of the cheap availability of faction versions of all the high end PvM items like faction Ornys.

Click to expand...

That doesn't correspond at all to the question I asked, or the generalization of the question I had in my post. I asked about the role of Luck in that system. As in the actual mathematical equations that get run in the code. Somehow, I doubt you can answer that.

Granted I would be extremely upset and disappointed as a tamer if there weren't tamables in the next expansion ...... I too think that something needs addressed as far as stable slots.... and not Just for tamers ..... for everyone.....

My crafter has no room at all to keep things like golem..... he has a blue and an orange beetle already and he can only have one of those out at a time...... as well he has a pack llama so I honestly have to do some silly shuffle every time I want to switch beetles...

I had to give up my very old swamp dragon on one of my characters because a good friend gave me a pair ferrets...... which by the way aren't nearly as cute and fun when you only have one..... much more fun in pairs....

Some of my other characters have trouble with not being able to have much for pets because they have a horse and a pack animal.... so they don't have room for squirrels or anything like that..... Or they have a golem for training and had to give something up...

I think everyone should have a base of 5 instead of 2...... after all you can have 5 followers..... seems kinda silly that you can only keep 2 of them safe in the stable.....

Stratics VeteranAlumni

Hey the FoF was fine, umm,but apparently only if you're a Moderator. And there seem to be more and more these days...

Click to expand...

I must be the exception that proves the rule or something then? Because this FoF was the worst one I've read on a long time. Sad to say that I actually looked forward to it this week. Maybe next week they'll have some real info to give us. *crosses fingers*

Stratics is the oldest continually running MMORPG Fansite on the Internet. Founded in 1997 Stratics has served the Ultima Online Community for 18 years. We strive to provide the most complete social experience for Ultima Online players.